Fantastic & funny brand refresh for Chiquita Banana's (click here).
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Fantastic & funny brand refresh for Chiquita Banana's (click here).
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Saul BASS (1920-1996) was one of the great graphic designers of the mid-20th century - His corporate work included devising highly successful corporate identities for United Airlines, AT&T, Minolta, Bell Telephone System and Warner Communications. He was also the master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Martin Scorsese. In 1974, not content with designing graphics and film titles, he realised his ambition to direct the film Phase IV. Sadly the movie flopped and Bass returned to commercial graphic design. The Narrows (click here) presents Phase IV at the Rooftop Cinema (click here) on February 12 in Melbourne.
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The BASS Brewery (click here) was founded as a brewery in 1777 by William Bass in Burton upon Trent, England. The main brand was Bass Pale Ale. The company became one of the main breweries in the UK, and Bass Pale Ale was exported throughout the British Empire, the distinctive red triangle becoming the UK's first registered trademark.
Long Way Home is one shot from a collection called True Romance by Jacques Olivar. "Jacques Olivar is a singular phenomenon because he understands how to ably connect beauty, glamour, and femininity with a perpetual fascination for the narrative" Walter Keller. The full set can be viewed and purchased (should you feel the urge) from Lumas (click here).
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This refreshing letter arrived via email a while ago. Although we aren't Andy Warhol and it's highly unlikely you're Mick Jagger (however if you're reading this, please get in touch), we think the 'trust' shown in the letter is something all clients and designers crave. From a client perspective, the idea that the designer will over deliver something fabulous with a minimum of hand holding. From the designer (artist/maker), the idea that you have a free reign to develop something that really pushes the idea, without restriction.
This handstamp designed for a set of stamps entitled People & Place (part of the Millennium Series, Royal Mail, UK) has to be in the top 5 things I've designed. At 2.5cm across its not the biggest, but it's one of the most immediate, communicating people and place in one illustration.
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I'm in the process of going through all the work completed over the last thirteen years or so. It's strange when you start to realise that much of what you have produced and spent days, even weeks lovingly crafting, now seems a little dated. However, the best pieces stand up well to what is currently out there - I'll be featuring more over the coming weeks. The shot above is by Tori Brancher and featured in one of the many programmes I completed for the Harley Gallery.
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Graphical juxtaposition of my favorite sandwich*
*In certain design 'lovey' circles talking about your favourite food on a design focused site is considered a little naff. We've tried to go beyond the usual uploaded image of a pie or plate of chips and do something a little more creative. Ok, so we've only found two pictures from flickr, which took about five and a half minutes, but we like the simplicity. I can't see Coles redesigning there fish range like this, but it might suit Selfridges or Harvey Nics. A fish finger sandwich is a long way from naff.
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Our favorite new font of the moment is from Hoefler & Frere-Jones (click here). The set, entitled Numbers, contains 15 different fonts with number characters only, as the name suggests. The two used above are Strasse (modeled after the glazed ceramic tiles commonly used for house numbers throughout Central Europe) and Valuta (based on a set of numbers used by Hungarian banknotes between 1947 and 1995).
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Great series of shots from Alex Telfer (click here).